A Department of Energy Fusion Science Center

The grant for this center has ended.
CMPD was active from 2006-1010.

The Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics (CMPD)
is a Department of Energy Fusion
Science Center, hosted jointly by the University of Maryland and UCLA. Our mission is to extend established
first-principles, microscopic, kinetic simulation techniques to
problems that intrinsically involve the slow evolution of macroscopic
variables, and to validate the simulations against experimental
observations.